At its meeting in Paris, ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that oversees the naming scheme for Web sites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names ending in whatever they like.
So, for example, instead of being restricted to sites ending in .com or .org., eBay could have a site […]
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The dream of an iPhone at $199 seemed too good to last, and so it ends. According to Reuters, U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T Inc will eventually be able to buy it for an extra $400.
Those who do […]
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According to a recent blog post in VCCircle, Expedia is rumored to have have picked up a majority stake in TravelGuru for $17 Million, a deal that values the travel website at $30 million.
Considering that Travelguru is one of the bigger players in the online travel market in India - a market expected to contribute […]
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Online free classifieds website Kijiji India has been re-branded in a new avatar - ‘Quikr‘.
Kijiji, now Quickr, is backed by Matrix Partners India and invested in by eBay Inc., and was meant to serve as a free, city based, community classifieds website allowing people in the same city to meet, trade, share ideas, and in […]
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Gaming has more to it than fun. In a corporate social responsibility (CSR) endeavour, Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, has joined hands with a Mumbai-based NGO, Population First, and has created a game called ‘Laadli’, - a game, that via a question-answer format, seeks to sensitise the player to female foeticide and sex identification practices.
Gaming is […]
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With it’s international International Flight Search, Cleartrip now allows its users to search for flights from India to any of the world’s destinations.
Interestingly, how they have done it, is by removing the drop down in the destination field, and adding an autosuggest feature, because of which the user no longer has to choose between domestic […]
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To position itself effectively in the rural market, Nokia plans to offer internet based services in micro-finance, distribution, agricultural services and after sales and support services for the non-urban markets. Nokia considers micro finance as a major initiative to increase mobile penetration in India from the current 26%.
“The company is planning to come up with […]
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The number of personal computers in use around the world has crossed 1 billion according to Gartner.
This has been boosted by strong growth in emerging markets, which is set to double the number of PCs by early 2014, with mature markets accounting for 58% of the first billion installed PCs, but estimated to account for […]
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In what will no doubt be a big blow to Microsoft, the New South Wales Department of Education and Training have decided to dump Microsft Outlook/ Exchange, and opt for Gmail Accounts instead, issuing its 1.3 million school students with Gmail Accounts.
While the Micsrosoft system cost the university $33 million over a three year contract, […]
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Punjab has a large base of global trade sellers led by sellers from Amritsar and Ludhiana according to eBay which found that every 20 minutes, an item is sold internationally from Punjab. Out of 2 million registered users in India, eBay, which has 34% market share of e-trading in India, 2% users are from Punjab
“Punjab […]
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